Gregory Walker has been tapped to assist the United Stated Coast Guard (USCG) in testing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s) for installation on their polar icebreakers. With the potential for a more ice-free arctic looming on the horizon, the USCG is hoping to have a UAV installed on the icebreaker Healy by fall 2012.
On UAF’s West Ridge in Irving, there is a room that is very orange. The room houses the offices of graduate students who conduct research for the university’s new Ocean Acidification Research Center (OARC).
Four muskox calves were born the last part of April and first week of May at the Robert G. White Large Animal Research Station. The two females and two males put the total number of muskoxen in LARS’ herd at 29.
Laura Davis holds up a yellow shield as she watches six very pregnant muskox cows at the Large Animal Research Station (LARS). The muskoxen can be ornery when expecting. The shield makes her look bigger. She’s seen the herd go through some dramatic changes in her time at LARS.
The newest addition to the Reindeer Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was welcomed to the world by a fresh blanket of snow. Calf #27 was found the morning of April 5 by George Aguiar, a research professional with the program.
When you catch a fever, a few degrees can be the difference between life and death. The oceans are the same way: a few more hydrogen ions and a slightly higher temperature can have catastrophic consequences.
Last summer, archaeologists uncovered the 11,500-year-old skeleton of a cremated Ice Age toddler, the oldest subarctic North American to date.
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When Sveta Yamin-Pasternak visits Russia’s rural northeastern tip, she needs to convince her hosts that she studies all of their delicacies. They better not hold back on feeding her the rotten stuff.
Neal Brown, UAF professor emeritus, seeks to turn our eyes upward once more in his free, two-part lecture series on the aurora, sponsored by UAF WINTERmester.
UAF will construct a Life Sciences Building where the West Ridge Greenhouse is currently located. The greenhouse will be relocated, but the destination is unknown said Jeffrey Werner, the program director of FFA in Alaska.
On Wednesday, Dec. 1, the Northern Studies Program at UAF hosted a panel discussion about Pebble Mine.
As a land, sea, and space grant institution with a life sciences facility in the works, UAF’s identity intertwines with its research. What isn’t immediately apparent in that identity is who represents the voices of the lives affected during some research projects.
Marine scientists in the United States have wanted a low-impact Arctic research vessel for decades, and that ship is soon to be here. The Research Vessel (R/V) Sikuliaq, which means “young ice” in Inupiat, is approaching completion after decades of work.
An undulating moan fills a small radio studio as 20 students voice a zombie horde. Over time, they begin to snarl. Sounds akin to Gollum from “Lord of the Rings” coughing up a hairball pierce the monotone.
With the encouragement of a portion of a $10 million National Institute of Health Pharmacogenomics Research Network grant, the UAF Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) is pursuing how to pinpoint prescriptions for Alaska Native populations on the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta.
The UAF Space Systems Engineering Program (SSEP) is assembling a team and a satellite while waiting for confirmation about when, where, and whether they can send the satellite into low-earth orbit.
UAF neuroscience professor Tom Kuhn wants to make you healthier. His secret ingredient is the blueberry.
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